April, 2010
Daily Times (Salisbury)
PPE Footnote: Mr. Cane passed away May 4, 2010, just one week after this newspaper article was published.
February, 1921 (Pocomoke City)
Worcester Democrat
May, 1896
Peninsula Enterprise
PPE Footnote: About 25 years after this fire an ultimately even greater detriment to Franklin City came with the opening of the Chincoteague causeway and then the infamous storm of 1933 imposed severe destruction of property from which the once booming community did not recover. Rail service between Snow Hill and Franklin City came to an end in the mid 1950's and the spring storm of 1962 took away most of what had remained of the town. See following article for more about the early days of Franklin City.
May, 1890
The Sun (New York)
August, 1994 
(PPE reader comments)
Anonymous said...MY mother started work at Moore Business Forms in the mid-1950s for the princely salary of $70 per week. The employees were paid on Thursdays and she would stop by the Acme store at 5th and Walnut and purchased the whole weeks supply of groceries for the family for approximately $20. One week she complained that she had gone way over budget because her purchases had totaled $22.
grammy said...The Acme was 5th and Market. Stuff like this happens when one gets old.
tk for PPE says: grammy- I've been getting "old" then since I was about 20! By the way, before that new Acme was built where were they located? I recall A&P on the west side of Market Street near County Trust Bank.
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MY mother started work at Moore Business Forms in the mid-1950s for the princely salary of $70 per week. The employees were paid on Thursdays and she would stop by the Acme store at 5th and Walnut and purchased the whole weeks supply of groceries for the family for approximately $20. One week she complained that she had gone way over budget because her purchases had totaled $22.
The Acme was 5th and Market. Stuff like this happens when one gets old.
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